wairua
/ˈwʌɪruːə/noun (plural wairuas or same) NZ
The spirit or the soul: participants who stopped smoking confirmed a positive effect on their wairua...
- In retrospect, they could see how smoking had clouded their wairua "like a fog".
- I may not have Maori blood in me, but the spirit —wairua—of New Zealand is in me.
- The survival of the wairua was never assured.
Origin
Early 19th century: Maori.
- time detector
- time difference
- time differential
- time dilatation
- time dilation
- time disc
- time disk
- time displacement
- time-distance
- time division
- time division multiplex
- time domain
- time draft
- time-drop
- time element
- Time-ese
- time-expired
- time-exposed
- time exposure
- time-fellow
- time-filler
- time flies
- Timeform
- time frame
- timeful